Regional Qualities

Among the most competitive electricity prices in Europe, today and in the foreseeable future.

An electricity grid built for heavy, mission-critical industries.

Our energy generation mix has the highest renewable profile in the world.

Our region has a robust national fiber infrastructure with excellent connections to the main geographical regions of Europe, including Russia.

Sweden is ranked first among the Nordics, and third in the world as a datacenter location, by the “Data Center Risk Index”. (Cushman&Wakefield)

Since Google set up in the Nordics in 2008, the following brands have chosen the Nordics as their domicile: in Sweden Facebook in 2011, Ericsson in 2013, Digiplex in 2013, and in Finland Yandex in 2013 and Microsoft in 2013. Follow-up investments have been made in Sweden by Sungard (2013), Interxion (2013) and Telecity (2012/13).

All our sites are located close to Mid Sweden University, with its extensive ICT education.

Our region contains the largest clusters in IT, as well as banking, pensions and insurance, outside the metropolitan regions.

Västernorrland is a leading industrial county with several of the crown jewels of Swedish industry in forestry, energy and mechanical engineering.

40 minutes from Stockholm by air.

Contact us

Allways feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

+46 73 270 45 74

Mikael Aamisepp
Investment Promotion Director

Big Green Data

Several municipalities and private companies in northern Sweden are joining forces to create a platform and enable data centre activity to be attracted to the region.

Our county in northern Sweden is a leading industrial region, enabling us to offer a very powerful and stable power grid, with one of the lowest electricity tax rates in Sweden.